From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ragnar =?iso-8859-15?Q?Kj=F8rstad?= Subject: Re: Advangates (A file-based interface for mount) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:56:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20030710045634.GC1160@vestdata.no> References: <08628CA53C6CBA4ABAFB9E808A5214CB4BDF39@mercury.infiniconsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08628CA53C6CBA4ABAFB9E808A5214CB4BDF39@mercury.infiniconsys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "Barry, Christopher" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:56PM -0400, Barry, Christopher wrote: > This is a bit off-topic Well, this list has traditionally been very open to this kind of topics. I should first point out that my knowledge of hurd is very limited; see http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ for more authorative information. > Does not the HURD enable users to all kinds of stuff, and it does not aff= ect the core system?=20 Yes, that's correct. Hurd uses a microkernel, and other services, such as filesystems (or translators, as they are called in hurd) run in a restricted environment. This means that regular users can write and use their own translator-code without affecting the stability of the system. > Would this not be a cool thing in that environment.=20 I'm not sure what you're refering to as "this" and "that environment", but hurd is definitively "a cool thing". Unfortenately I think that is all it is at this point. It's not ready for production use, and it doesn't have neither a userbase or a developer-base close to what linux has. On the other hand it does have a very different architecture that allows this kind of stuff - maybe in ten years hurd has matured. I think open source software is flexible enough that once hurd reaches critical mass all the drivers and features of linux can be ported to hurd relatively quickly. (after all, they are license compatible) > Does ReiserFS even work with the HURD?=20 No. --=20 Ragnar Kj=F8rstad